Data Commons

Data Commons
Screenshot of a query in Data Commons
Results for a query in Data Commons
Founder(s)Ramanathan V. Guha
Key peoplePrem Ramaswami (Head of Data Commons)
ParentGoogle
URLdatacommons.org
LaunchedMay 2018; 6 years ago (2018-05)

Data Commons is an open-source platform[1] created by Google[2] that provides an open knowledge graph, combining economic, scientific and other public datasets into a unified view.[3] Ramanathan V. Guha, a creator of web standards including RDF,[4] RSS, and Schema.org,[5] founded the project,[6] which is now led by Prem Ramaswami.[7]

The Data Commons website was launched in May 2018 with an initial dataset consisting of fact-checking data published in Schema.org "ClaimReview" format by several fact checkers from the International Fact-Checking Network.[8][9] Google has worked with partners such as the United Nations (UN) to populate the repository,[2] which also includes data from the United States Census, the World Bank, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics,[10] Wikipedia, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[11]

The service expanded during 2019 to include an RDF-style knowledge graph populated from a number of largely statistical open datasets. The service was announced to a wider audience in 2019.[12] In 2020 the service improved its coverage of non-US datasets, while also increasing its coverage of bioinformatics and coronavirus.[13] In 2023, the service relaunched with a natural-language front end powered by a large language model.[2] It also launched as the back end to the UN data portal with Sustainable Development Goals data.[14]

  1. ^ "Custom Data Commons". Docs - Data Commons. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Data Commons is using AI to make the world's public data more accessible and helpful". Google. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  3. ^ Fensel, Dieter; Şimşek, Umutcan; Angele, Kevin; Huaman, Elwin; Kärle, Elias; Panasiuk, Oleksandra; Toma, Ioan; Umbrich, Jürgen; Wahler, Alexander (2020), "Introduction: What Is a Knowledge Graph?", Knowledge Graphs, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–10, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37439-6_1, ISBN 978-3-030-37438-9, S2CID 213620389, retrieved 2020-10-16
  4. ^ Guns, Raf (2013). "Tracing the origins of the semantic web". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 64 (10): 2173–2181. doi:10.1002/asi.22907. hdl:10067/1111170151162165141.
  5. ^ Funke, Daniel (7 December 2017). "This website helps you find related fact checks - and it was built by a 17-year-old". Poynter. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  6. ^ Guha, Ramanathan V. (15 October 2020). "Data Commons, now accessible on Google Search". docs.datacommons.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  7. ^ O'Donnell, James (12 September 2024). "Google's new tool lets large language models fact-check their responses". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  8. ^ "Fact Checks". datacommons.org. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  9. ^ Jiang, Shan; Baumgartner, Simon; Ittycheriah, Abe; Yu, Cong (2020-04-20). "Factoring Fact-Checks: Structured Information Extraction from Fact-Checking Articles". Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020. WWW '20. Taipei Taiwan: ACM. pp. 1592–1603. doi:10.1145/3366423.3380231. ISBN 978-1-4503-7023-3. S2CID 215882520.
  10. ^ Raghavan, Prabhakar (2020-10-15). "How AI is powering a more helpful Google". Google. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  11. ^ Sheth, Amit; Padhee, Swati; Gyrard, Amelie; Sheth, Amit (2019-07-01). "Knowledge Graphs and Knowledge Networks: The Story in Brief". IEEE Internet Computing. 23 (4): 67–75. arXiv:2003.03623. doi:10.1109/MIC.2019.2928449. ISSN 1089-7801. S2CID 204820800.
  12. ^ Luong, Daphne; Chou, Charina (5 March 2019). "Doing our part to share open data responsibly". The Keyword. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  13. ^ Ramasubramanian, Sowmya (21 September 2020). "Google's open source data to study impact of COVID-19". The Hindu. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  14. ^ Manyika, James (19 September 2023). "Using data and AI to track progress toward the UN Global Goals". Google. Retrieved 22 July 2024.